• “It was the exquisitely wrong time to try asserting command.”
• “I’m sure the enemies of Hitler said pretty much the same thing. They said it in 1934, and they were right. In '36, and they were right. Also in '38. ‘The wrong time to challenge him,’ they said. And when they realized the right time had finally come, they were protesting in Auschwitz or Buchenwald.”
• “This is not the same,” she said.
• “You think not?”

Under the Dome is probably in my top 5 King novels so far. I loved (and hated) every moment of it.
A whole town of people, cut off from the rest of the world by an invisible physical barrier. And unbeknownst to these townspeople, their main selectman is a dictator, who's been quietly partaking in illegal affairs and who, finally thanks to the Dome, gets the chance to do what he's always wanted to do with the town.
Big Jim has to be one of King's best antagonists. I don't remember ever being so angry over any other character. And the problem is that he's extremely realistic, there are real people like him out there, and that makes him terrifying.
The Dome aside, all the horrors of this book is man-made. All the Dome did was that it caused the sht to hit the fan. The sht already existed in this town.

“They’re outside. We’re inside, and we did it to ourselves.”
“You’ve got enough problems without beating yourself up on that score,” Barbie said. “If anyone’s responsible, it’s Rennie.”
“But who elected him?” Julia asked. “Who gave him the power to do those things?”

All in all, this was such a compelling story. King's characterization and story telling is, as usual, amazing.
Even the town is like a character in this story. It's so beautifully and thoroughly described, I felt like I was living there.
And finally, I liked the ending. I liked the explanation for the Dome, it just made sense.
And the last few segments of the "Halloween Comes Early" chapter and the beginning of the following chapter were some of the most horrifying and heartbreaking scenes I've ever read (and that's saying something).